individuality quotes

I am who I am. That’s why my friends and peers respect and appreciate me. I don’t change or cater my actions to fit my surroundings. I’m myself 24/7. People appreciate that.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

I don’t like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone’s life is different, and everyone’s journey is different.

You don’t have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.

I don’t see myself as ever being like anybody else.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I talk about myself in the third person all the time. I don’t live my life in the way someone like you does. I live my life completely serving only my work and my fans.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

I’m very free-spirited.

I don’t live by all these rigid, weird rules that make me feel all fenced in. I just like the way that I feel like, and that makes me feel very free.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It’s just funny. And wonderful.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I’m not a sheep.

Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn’t accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else’s insistence or someone else’s whim or convenience.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

I didn’t try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

I don’t think I would be interested in the climate at all if I had been like everyone else.

A lot of people have said I’d have probably done better in my career if I hadn’t looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn’t be blamed because you want to look pretty.

I didn’t want to just be another girl singer. I wanted there to be something that set me apart.

You aren’t normal if you sing to people. You aren’t a normal person. It’s nerve-racking.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

By the sole fact of his entering into ‚Thought,‘ man represents something entirely singular and absolutely unique in the field of our experience. On a single planet, there could not be more than one centre of emergence for reflexion.

I never ask anyone else’s opinion. They don’t count.

I look like a woman, but I think like a man.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

I’m on the autism spectrum. I don’t usually follow social coding and so therefore I go my own way.

People look at the same passage, and one person will say this is the best thing he’s ever read, and another person will say it’s absolutely idiotic. I mean, there’s no way to reconcile those two things. You just have to forget the whole business of what people are saying.

Freedom is relative.

Everyone has their style and your style explains a lot about who you are – you feel me? I’ve had style since childhood, so I like to dress how I feel. But maybe I get carried away by some trends.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

When you’re just like everybody else, you’ve nothing to offer other than your conformity.

All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn’t matter if you have a beautiful face or not.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

I have a hard time figuring out what kind of box to put me in, too, because I don’t know exactly what’s going on around me or why. But I need to stay outside of boxes because then I can look at what’s inside of them without being part of them.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I’m against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

Factoring in millions of people when I’m writing a song is not a good idea. I don’t ever do it.

I like to recede away from classifications. You might say that indicates a fundamental lack of commitment. I suppose that’s true to some degree.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

I’m not really good at fun-to-know, human interest stuff. We’re not ‚celebrities‘, whose life itself is a performance. Good or bad or ugly, we are our words. They’re what people meet.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

I can simply tell you that since I was a kid, I didn’t like to look like anyone else.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

Don’t make me into this airy-fairy, moralist, idealist because I’m not.